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[On soapbox] The politicians are being really stupid to side with the Telcos on this one. When some citizens have WiFi everywhere and huge advantages in business and convenience, other citizens in WiFi-restricted areas will realize how stupid the restriction is and change their votes. Restricting WiFi is like saying you can't have cell phones because it would hurt the pay phone business. [Off soapbox]

I saw this post on slashdot this morning about Verizon and the Philadelphia municipal WiFi project and it made me angry all over again.

For a little background, the City of Philadelphia started planning to wifi up the whole city. Free, basic wifi access anywhere in the city. Sounds great. Sounds like a really awesome idea. Well, Verizon got a whiff of it and tried to block the project threatening to sue the FCC in order to make them block Philly from this project. It seems like they've worked out a deal since then but when I heard that back in November or December it reminded me of everything that is wrong with Big Business dominating our government and the Republican's habit of favoring Big Business at the expense of basic defense of the average citizen.

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